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Living the dream with humanitarian and founder of Global Outreach Doctors Andrew Lustig
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Dr. Andrew Lustig is a worldwide humanitarian Naturopathic Doctor/EMT/I and the President/Founder of Global Outreach Doctors.
He has provided medical care in hospitals, ambulances, local clinics, mud huts and even under trees around the globe. For the past sixteen years Andrew and/or his teams have worked in disaster and poverty conditions in remote regions of the world including Ukraine, Iraq, Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mexico, Grenada, Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Haiti, Kenya, Nepal, the Philippines, Nicaragua, Lesvos (GR), Syria border (JO) and the Amazon Jungle.
He was a member of the Disaster Medicine Assistance Team of NM. Andrew provided medical care for many years at annual large scale events including Bataan Death March (attended by 20,000 participants), Burningman (attended by 80,000 participants) and LovElution (attended by 10,000 participants).
As a humanitarian, Lustig has worked with solitary confinement, life sentence and death row inmates at the super max State Penitentiary of New Mexico.
He’s organized large scale events and raised substantial funds for his dear friends, the Maasai people of Kenya to build schools and provide food. Lustig and has given speeches and appeared in print, radio and television.
For two decades in Andrew’s prior life chapter, he was employed and later the owner/CEO of a diversified media corporation with 1000 associates in NYC and locations across the country. He is dedicated to serving those less fortunate around the world as the volunteer President of Global Outreach Doctors.